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Instructors:

Mary W. Elings is the Archivist for Digital Collections of The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. As Head of the Digital Collections Unit, she manages all aspects of the digital collections, including digital curation activities, digital processing, mass digitization, finding aid creation and maintenance, metadata standards and policies, information management, grant project management, online access, and web initiatives.

Libraries, archives, and museums have been engaged in putting digital collections online for nearly 20 years. These digital cultural heritage collections are made available online and searchable via the metadata associated with them. Digital humanities and social sciences researchers make use of this metadata for discovery and analysis of these digital research materials. This workshop will introduce participants to metadata used by libraries, archives, and museums to describe and encode online digital collections. We will look at why and how metadata is used, and explore what lies behind digital research collections online. No prior experience required.